The Osceola times., 1887-09-10

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MARX GARRETT Is reported to have been
murdered and robbed at McAliister. l. T.,
ON the 3ist.
REV. DIR. SEyNoUR. alias Coverdale. the
man who ran away from GAINESVILLE, MINI.
with Editor Henry's wife, was srraisned
in jefferson Market police court. New
York, ON the 3Ist and was discharged, the
Governor OF Minnesota having refused "
issue requisition for him.
The livery barn Of J. II. Coles, In De-
troit, Mich, was burned "a the morning
IL the 3ist, with its contents. George :.
Hall. a farmer near Mount Clemens, sixty
five years old. perishei in the names and
his son, Henry Hall, about twenty years
old, aud a farmer named John Pearsel,
barely escaped.
OK the lst Thomas Joyce shot his wife
fatally and wounded his daughter ut Pitts.
burgh. Pa.
OS the lst fire which started in the
Cafe Egyptian at Cairo, Egypt, destroyed
a whole block of buildings. The loss IL
heavy.
On the 3lst ult a man about thirty three
years old, supposed from papers found in
his pockets, 10 lie Derby Il. Brach, Of 1ai
North Boundary street, Burlington, Ia,
committed suicide In Boston Common by
shooting. The ball took effect in his left
breast, causing almost instant death.
OS the morning Of the lst Oak Grove
Seminary, at WateryilIe, Me-, was burned
TO the ground. A son OF Stephen Jones,
aged sixteen, perished in the flames
The building was occupied as
school by the Society " Friends. The
school was burned q few years ago, and
the present buildings were completed last
year.
HENRY KING, a prominent merchant OF
Georgetown, o., visited Cincinnati on
business ON the 3lst ut., and spent the
night with Mr.. Geo. Straub, his brother.in-
law. Early the next morning Mr.. Straub
was awakened by noise, aud found that
Mr. King had In some way fallen from the
window of the second nd-story room 10 the
sidewalk and received fatal injuries.
On the 3lst ult. n horrible accident oc-
Cured ON John Hill's farm about five miles
east Of Logansport, Ind, by which Henry
lost his life. He was blasting
stumps with dynamite and had about fifty
in his possession. BY some un.
known means they were all exploded, and
was literally torn 10 pieces. parts
Of his body being found over a hundred
yards distant.
ANOTHER attempt was made on the
night of the lst to wreck a train on the
Wabash near Danyille, H., by setting fire
10 bridge.
A FIRE broke out in the magnificent
abbey sud college of the Catholic Church
1t 81. Meinard. Spencer County, Ind, an
interior town fifteen miles south OF Hunt
ngton, and despite the heroic efforts of
about one hundred men, the entire struct-
are, together with most of its contents,
as destroyed.
On the ID Mrs. John Martin and her two
gear-old daughter were fatally burned at
Cincinnati by the upsettng of coal.oil
stove on which Mrs. Martin was preparing
supper.
On the night of the ith Joseph Bolton
hot and probably fatally wounded Cap
ain Miller, whom he found in Mrs. Boil
on's company at shelton, Conn. Bolton
was arrested.
On the 3D. Mrs. Mary Dunlap and her
'ix-months'-old babe were burned TO death
1t Penny's coal road, near McKeesport,
Pa. The woman tried to start the fire with
'oal oil.
On the night of the 3D. Eli Williams, a
we'll -to-do farmer residing near Portland,
Ind, was shot and killed while trespass-
ng in field of melons belonging to Levi
Pence. Pence denied having done the
shooting.
NICHOLAS KERGER, living in Lower st.
Clair township, which adjoins Pittsburgh,
Pa, refused to allow a number of his team.
'ters to participate in the labor demon
'tration on the 3D.. In the evening he was
attacked in saloon by four of the men
md kicked and beaten until he became
unconscious. He died on the 9TH.